selenium-table

This is a Selenium helper library for interacting with HTML tables in a meaningful way.

Installation

Maven installation:

<dependency>
  <groupId>co.boorse</groupId>
  <artifactId>selenium-table</artifactId>
  <version>1.1</version>
</dependency>

Usage

First create a SeleniumTable object from an existing Selenium WebElement that points to a table.

// get the <table> element
WebElement tableElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"table1\"]"));
// get an instance of SeleniumTable
SeleniumTable table = SeleniumTable.getInstance(tableElement);

Now you can iterate over the rows and columns using a foreach loop.

for (SeleniumTableRow row : table) {
  for (SeleniumTableCell cell : cells) {
    // do something with the cell contents, for example...
    System.out.println(cell.getText());
  }
}

You can also use a traditional for loop.

for (int i = 0; i < table.rowCount(); i++) {
  SeleniumTableRow row = table.get(i);
  for (int j = 0; j < row.cellCount(); j++) {
    SeleniumTableCell cell = row.get(j);
    System.out.println(cell.getText());
  }
}

You can get a specific cell at a row and column index.

SeleniumTableCell cell = table.get(0, 1); // get the cell in the first row, second column

If the HTML table has headers, SeleniumTable can deal with that too.

// get the header row (containing <th> elements)
if (table.hasHeaderRow()) {
  SeleniumTableRow headerRow = table.headerRow();
}

Additionally, SeleniumTable can locate cells using header or column names. Column names are case-insensitive.

// if there is a header cell containing the text "Header 1"
if (table.hasColumn("Header 1")) {
  // get all cells in the table below the heading "Header 1"
  List<SeleniumTableCell> header1Cells = table.getColumn("Header 1");
}

Release process

To release new versions of the library, follow the steps below:

mvn clean install
mvn release:prepare
mvn release:perform
git push -–tags
git push origin master

The release process used to deploy this library to Maven Central is described in this tutorial.

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